My CYA is 40. I've kept the pool at above 16 now for the duration except for day one. I've used DE four days running just not clearing up with any appreciative clarity. I've taken pics now of steps and vac on the bottom ... lol You'd think I was looking 40' down. My pool is only 4 feet deep. It's an Intex 16x32. Oh .. my total alkalinity is 100, the calcium is 110. Ph when I started was 7.3 and still is at 7.4. I've been using chlorine from the local hardware store 1000 gallon tank that supplies chlorine for beach homes and condos etc. It generally is a hot product at least 10 or 11 percent. What do I do? Heck with as much money as I've spent and water cost here in Pensacola Florida I should have drained the 15,000 gallons and cost me $45 buck to replace and start fresh. HOW DO I GET THIS POOL CLEAR? PLEASE? lol lol lol!
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Intex equipment is woefully undersized and takes a long time to clear a swamp. It is what it is when the entire pool comes in a box for less than just a traditional pool filter.
I love these pools for how many people are able to get into the game but they have their drawbacks juat like anything else.
I love these pools for how many people are able to get into the game but they have their drawbacks juat like anything else.
Its your choice if you want to continue the battle or wipe the slate clean. At any point it's still only $45 to start over with the lesson learned.
Are you sure the DE is not just being pumped back into the pool making it cloudy? I’m really not a fan of the advice to use it.
This is where I'm at. Right now before a rain storm. I've got about $140 into the recovery now. I'm of the stubborn variety. I hate losing, this is the first time I've ever lost a pool. I found TFP at least ten years ago. I swear by it. This 16x32 is 5 years old never had any problems before. I do run the Intex 3500 gpm filter pump 24-7. Over the years I've gotten tons of compliments. Anyway health and time away I lost the pool and got a swamp lol.
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I don't think so ... When I back wash it all comes out in the wash. Then I put a cup in of slurry. And it goes over time from 8 pounds to 14-15 until I backwash
Winning is a matter of prospective. You could 'win' by spending $45 in water today.
Stubbornness on the other hand. You can cut off your nose to spite your face and demand it all bends to your will.
Life gets in the way for all of us given enough time. One phone call that a family member is hurt/sick, or making that call about ourselves and the pool is on the back burner indefinitely.
But some good news, cloudy/milky water is dead or mostly dead algae. At this point it shifts from a chemical battle to a mechanical battle filtering it all out. You maintain the FC because each brushing may expose new layers of algae, and also for good measure to retain the upper hand at this point. But FC should hold much better and it's mostly a waiting game babysitting the filter. Adding DE helps at this stage but you need to be free to monitor and backwash when the PSI jumps.
- May 3, 2014
- 62,672
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
If you have passed multiple OCLT's and you are confident you are just trying to clear fines, then Clarifier - Further Reading
I would suggest using a Chitosan based product, not a polymer based product.